Since this is one of the most time consuming escort quests in the game (due to a lot of trash clearing) make absolutely sure that everyone in your group has completed the Quest "A Shred of Hope" (https://classicdb.ch/?quest=4282) before starting this one. Once the event is running, it can only be started anew by resetting the instance and clearing all the trash again, afaik.

The most critical part of the quest is the storage room located near the end of the first circular path Windsor will be walking. (http://atlasmod.com/Maps/BlackrockDepths.jpg < opposed to the cell marked by n

You WILL fail it if you dont stay close to him the entire escort.
dont stray from him or fall behind.
you WILL fail if u are too far, even if you started it and he makes it out.

A guildie found out the hard way....when you are getting close the the instance portal, make sure you stay inside the instance until you get a completion on the quest!&nbsp If you leave, you won't complete.

Make sure you have an empty spot in your quest log )
I forgot that and it immediately failed after pressing the "yes" button -_-

I did Jail Break! for the first time last night, and it was only my second visit to BRD.

My group followed the instructions from rendervixen's post, and they served us well. Even the one 60 who needed Jail Break! wasn't exactly sure which areas to clear before starting the quest.

My comments follow.&nbsp Refer to https://classicdb.ch/?so=2898 this map if you don't know what the jail area looks like, where the Ring of Law is, etc.

-> Marshal Windsor did not grant a Devotion Aura on the party at any time. I assume this is a change.

-> Windsor takes the most direct path to the Supply Room, a.k.a. the side to the west of his cell.&nbsp That's why you don't need to clear the entire cellblock ring.&nbsp Save some time by skipping the eastern 1/3 of the place.

-> My group left the Cell Doors closed, and that seemed to work out just fine.&nbsp I have no idea what would happen if we had opened & cleared them all!

-> Windsor goes pretty directly from the Supply Room side of the cellblock to the western side of the Ring of Law, but you'll still want the entire large, hexagonal room cleared.&nbsp Then he'll sweep around the Ring of Law, and make a beeline from its southeast hallway to the instance portal (as has already been mentioned).

The fights:

-> One ambush spawn before the Supply Room. IIRC it was 3-4 elite Humanoids.&nbsp Windsor will say something right before the enemies come.

-> More mobs (elite Dwarves) will be in the Supply Room even if you cleared it before.&nbsp Try to get your tanker in there to get aggro off of him relatively soon, because Windsor won't put his gear on until after the room is empty.

-> I believe the next attack doesn't come until the Ring of Law.&nbsp You'll start opening cell doors at his command, releasing enemies.&nbsp First was an ogre + another elite, then there are 2-3 more doors with just a single elite behind them (dwarf, Scarlet guy, etc.).

After the hostile cells, I think the fighting was over.&nbsp There will be one more cell with a neutral NPC that (I believe) someone on Jail Break! has to talk to.&nbsp Then Windsor will sprint to the exit.

Windsor does not have a glass jaw even at first when he's naked.&nbsp He took quite a beating from the first ambush with my group because we weren't expecting it, and still he only hit about half health.

56 Priest (myself, Shadow/Disc)
58 Druid (Feral)
58 Mage (Ice)
60 Mage (in PvP epics... we had DPS aplenty!)
60 Warrior

Jail Break! can be done with a far less "impressive" group than I had if you go into it with this knowledge.&nbsp The only boss fight is potentially High Interrogator Gerstahn -- if your party needs the Prison Cell Key, otherwise you'll face very managable, "normal" BRD groups. Control your pulls while clearing before initiating the quest & you'll be fine.

At least the Druid, 58 Mage, and myself got through A Shred of Hope while we were in there.&nbsp I'm now a Jail Break! veteran, and ready to go through it again for my own benefit =)

CLEAR THEEE SUPPLY ROOM AND YEE WILL BE VICTORIOUS HARHARHAR

I can confirm Huntermaen's advice. My group just did everything he said, except clearing the Storage Room. Well wouldn't you know, we wiped on it and had to reset the instance after over an hour of work clearing it.

If you do not clear it, it will have a double spawn of the regular mobs plus some adds from the quest and basically be impossible. It is the very first openable door on the western side of the jail loop.

Clear this room, or you are doomed to waste several hours resetting the instance and doing the quest over!

WARNING!

If you fail this quest.(either your group is wiped or the escort is dead)
You will have to reset the whole instance and do everything all over again!
The Marshal will not respawn after he's killed(or at least he won't respawn before the mobs do...)

Also, after he stepped out of his jail room, he could walk both ways...

i completed the quest, and when i went to turn in, Marshal Maxwell said "You look tired, <Name>, perhaps you should take a seat by the fire and relax" wut does this mean?

where do you get the precursor to this quest?

and the next part of this chain is this

Yea Disband quest and get it back again you probably failed jailbreak the first time you tried.

Did it very easily in 3-man group (70 BM hunter, 70 holy/prot paladin (me), 58 demonology warlock).

i had the quest failed and tryed it again a couple of days later, we made it but i hadnt abandoned the quest before we started it so i didnt get any credit for it.

I've run jailbreak several times now, and in most cases we clear out the halls before starting the break.&nbsp But last time I did it with a group and we just decided to clear the hall up until Windsor (including the supply room--very important), free him, and have him along as a 6th party member (he's incredibly tough in all that gear of his).&nbsp The group consisted of:

60 Druid (me)
60 Warrior
58 Warrior
56 Priest
55 Warlock

Ironically, even after clearing the supply room initially, we had a scare when suddenly I noticed our priest had d/c'd, so I had to do some emergency healing to keep us alive.&nbsp Luckily he came right back on.&nbsp The big area was no problem...isolated mobs and no pats, no big deal.&nbsp When we got into the hall of the law that's when we ran into trouble.&nbsp We cleared out the npc's in the first couple cells no problem, but then we ran into a mob and then a pat came too at the same time (Windsor just doesn't stop!).&nbsp The 58 warrior (the only one on the quest) had been getting disconnected a lot, and during this fight was just one of those times.&nbsp So he disappeared and we all wiped, and Windsor was left fighting 3 guards alone.&nbsp Then the warrior popped in again and ran into help, priest used soulstone (thank goodness for that) and healed the warrior, then rezzed the rest of us (I had to tank and run up to help windsor--who was already fighting the next group--by the time I was rezzed).&nbsp After that close call, the rest wasn't too bad.&nbsp Windsor can take one heck of a beating in all his armor.&nbsp If you've got a good group and like a fast-paced challenge, then try this option.&nbsp It's way fun!&nbsp And it's a lot faster.

Seeing as how this is an Event Quest, it is not sharable at any time. Also, you'll want to obviously clear out the patrols that block the way from Marshal Windsor exiting the cell to the LEFT direction.

**You will have to check more cells, there will be more Patrols that you did not clear on the way over here that circle around from the other side, make sure you stand clear of them too. Respawn rates are slow you dont have to worry about that. It's also a good idea to let Marshal Windsor draw the aggro first, he is more armored than any party member and can be healed and buffed. Before entering a cell that Marshal Windsor asks you to open, make sure that its at THAT moment where you stop for a rest (regenerate mana and health and rebuff)

For this, you will most likely a strong healer, a armored tank, and a Paladin to hog the Aggro from all other party members. Marhsal Windsor will attack at random, make sure you leave alone the target he chooses, as you would with a Hunter's Pet. When you breach the end of this event, talk to Marshal Windsor and then you are able to roam the rest of Blackrock Depths as you wish and leave him there. When you leave the instance, he will too (hearthstone, portal, walking, anything)

It's been a long journy and you're almost done!

So what happens if&nbsp you fail this quest? group wiped the other night , tried to go back with a different group again this morning but this time I couldn't speak with Windsor - I had Jail Break in my quest log , but could not initiate the walk. Someone else in the group started it , we finished ... get to the end and I can't talk to Windsor , so I go back to the Steppes and I can't talk to Max either. Jail Break is still in the log and I can't complete it ...

Just abandon and when you go back in his cell you can get the quest again BUT make sure no one in your party accepts until everyone else has abandoned and/or turned in the previous quest

I did the quest ...after that i went to meet Marshal Maxwell in Burning Steps...and after that he says that i need to meet Maxwell at the SW gates,so i went there and he wasnt there...i invited a friend ,converted to raid and he apears ,i spoke to him as the quest requires and he started to move forward to SW to meet Jonathan...thay started some conversation and he say to continue to the SW keep,i mounted and start going there....and sudenly it wrote to me FAILED... w00t!

Tried this quest last night with a group of 4 60's

1 Resto Druid
1 Farel Druid
1 Warrior
1 Warlock (Me)

We cleared out the loop around Windsor, but didn't clear out the Ring of Law. Once Windsor had his gear, we had no problem!

After Windsor freed his friend, he started running to the instance portal. He got about half way across the large main room, and dissappered! I'm still standing in the instance waiting for a GM to respond... Hopefully I don't have to run this again!

-Riv
60 Warlock
Wildhammer

it happened to me too itsbugged but them windosr came for no reason when i was going to elywnn so i abandoned my failed masquerade and he gave me the quest again im still tryin now ill update on it lateri also petitioned the GM ill give an update later

Yesterday we were attempt Jbreak, starts easy but near the middle of the fight gets hard, he start running and pulls group by group,first of all you should clear the supply room, its more easier this way, supply room is the first room at the right at the Marshal's tunnel.Marshal can manage a whole group by himself, he dont die easy, so if you are out of mana or health and he is fighting dont worry too much, take your breath and bandage your self/ rec for a few sec.The most difficult part is when the ogre boss showns up, a group of dwarves are near and attacking and an elemental patrol charges on you,
thats near the fire elementals side at the middle of the tunnel.
The !@$#@ is that if you attempt to do lbreak and die at first, when you go for a second try ( same or other day ) probably you will never complete it!
if someone knows whats wrong pls advise cause i am out of ideas, I was died at my first attempt, yesterday I was there again and thats happened:
When I saw the Marshal i didnt have any questionmark above him, in my q log i have the q as incomplete but no failed, I could talk to the marshal although and he started his course, everything went ok, we kill all his encounters and he managed to go alive with him at the instance entrance, I vener stayed away of him, it never said failed, but the q didnt complete. Is anyone with the same problem find a solution? A party member complete it, I dont.. wtf...S

no, this is only alliance quest, i dunno where to get quest chain for horde ony attunement, all i know is that u gotta kill th elite dragon things in winterspring, and some other places i believe is the last, not sure. 1 of the quests for the horde ony attunement is some skull quest thing i dunno where in the chain it is tho

+1
the room of the Windsor gear must be cleaned before launching the quest, its the hardest battle of the escort

I wouldnt suggest to clean everything, because it takes a lot of time and Windsor is a exceptional 6th man to the party He is naked only on the path that leads to his cell from central area

yea clearing the trash is vital... this isnt a regular walks slower then a crawl guy. he waits for nobody.... his life is not a concern to him. slow down!

Some tips:

I ran this as a lvl 70 lock with a lvl 50 pally and a lvl 52 lock. They pretty much watched as I cleared. I cleared the ring around Windsor's cell, but didn't bother with the ring around the 'ring of law'.

If you have a felguard, be careful with the 'cleave' ability by the outside of the storage room. One thing I wasn't expecting when clearing the area by the storage room was that when having the felguard tank a mob outside the storage room, mobs INSIDE the storage room got hit with cleave -- and aggro'd -- and came running out. Luckily my Felguard can tank well, and 'seed of corruption' came in handy, as well as a healing pot.

Once Windsor has his armor on (in the storage room), it takes an act of God to kill him. He can definitely hold his own very well. We had no problems clearing the area around the ring of law with him. If you don't clear, be prepared for non-stop fighting, though. :-) It's actually kinda fun as a lvl 70.

i dont think you can do it in raid just a group

lets see I have done this quest nine times now and can't get the darn thing to complete. Once I was to far away one time I had to release my spirit and run back, but the other times I had done nothing wrong stuck with him the whole way didnt die and still not complete. GM says I did something wrong and nothing they can do. I believe as of may 5th 06 the quests where players that can accept the same quest (player so and so is starting such and such would you like to accept) is glitched. This isnt the only quest I have been screwed on and thats why I think there is a glitch but GMs wont respond to me now.

i dont even no how to start it

i cat even talk to him even if i have q :(

what shall i do?

Didn't preclear (Guild group, 70 warrior and druid, 57 pally (me), 50 shaman), some slightly hairy moments but got through ok, til i lagged out on the last bit and failed for being too far away :( Have to do the whole bloody thing again, not at all happy

I just did this last night with a guild group:

60 Warrior
60 Priest (me)
60 Hunter
59 Warrior
52 Paladin

It really was not difficult at all, and we didn't have a whole lot of DPS in our grouop. You have to clear out all the mobs from the entire prison loop and the entire ring of law loop. You also have to clear all the mobs in the big room that connects them. Marshal Windsor manages to wander almost the entire length of both loops. There are occasional spawns of mobs, but they weren't all that difficult for us.

You don't have to do the ring of law event, and you don't have to clear out the center rooms in the middle of the prison area loop.

It is true ?